Community awards
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Congratulations to our faculty, staff, students, and postdocs who have won awards for their research, teaching, and scholarship.
2025-26 Academic year
| Name | Award | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Colette Wabnitz | Women’s Impact Award, Falling Walls Foundation | Center for Ocean Solutions |
| Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke | 2026 Siebel Scholar in Energy Science | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Jimin Zhou | 2026 Siebel Scholar in Energy Science | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Edward Apraku | 2026 Siebel Scholar in Energy Science | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Akshay Rao | 2026 Siebel Scholar in Energy Science | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ashley Blawas | Stanford Postdoc Champions: Community Impact Award | Oceans |
| Iro Armeni | 2025 Google Research Scholar Program recipient | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Kate Maher | Anonymous Friends University Fellow in Undergraduate Education | Earth System Science |
| Rosemary Knight | 2025 Forrest Legacy Award, River Partners | Geophysics |
| William Tarpeh | 2025 MacArthur Fellow | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Madalina Vlasceanu | Robert B. Cialdini Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology | Environmental Social Sciences |
| Will Chueh | Named the Kimmelman Professor | Energy Science & Engineering, Precourt Institute |
| Noah Diffenbaugh | Named the William Wrigley Professor | Earth System Science |
| Haeyoung Noh | 2026 A.J. Durelli Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Sarah Fletcher | Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award, AGU | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
2024-25 Academic year
| Name | Award | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Edgar Virgüez | Science for Solutions Award, AGU | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Ronaldo Borja | Yushan Fellow Award, Ministry of Education, Taiwan | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ching-Yao Lai | NSF CAREER Award | Geophysics |
| Colette Wabnitz | Women’s Impact Award, Falling Walls Foundation | Center for Ocean Solutions |
| Jim Leape | Top Agri-food Pioneer, World Food Prize Foundation | Center for Ocean Solutions |
| Anne Kiremidjian | Eugene L. Grant award | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Diana Moanga | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Excellence in Teaching Award | Earth System Science |
| Sibyl Diver | Walter J. Gores Award | Earth Systems Program |
| Rob Jackson | Blue Planet Prize | Earth System Science |
| Guadalupe Carrillo | Carol Muller Outstanding Service Award, Stanford Faculty Women's Forum | Dean's Office |
| Yuan Wang | NSF CAREER Award | Earth System Science |
| Rebecca Grekin | Student Sustainability Award, Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Fiorenza Micheli | Outstanding Leader Award, Stanford Faculty Women's Forum | Oceans |
| Paul Segall | Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences | Geophysics |
| William Mitch | Frontier in Research Award, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Colin Marvin | Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU | Earth & Planetary Sciences |
| David Lobell | T.W. Schultz Memorial Lecture & Award | Earth System Science |
| Ronaldo Borja | Mary F. Wheeler Medal, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Madalina Vlasceanu | APS Rising Star | Environmental Social Sciences |
| Stephan Graham | Twenhofel Medal, SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Paula Welander | Geochemical Society Hayes Award | Earth System Science |
| Jack Baker | William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor, School of Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Lynn Hildemann | Wayne Loel Professor of Sustainability | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Laura Schaefer | Frederick Emmons Terman Fellow | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Ilenia Battiato | Frederick Emmons Terman Fellow | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Krish Mehta | Forbes "30 Under 30" list 2024 | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources |
| Gretchen Daily | Named one of Business Insider's 2024 Climate Action 15 leaders | Natural Capital Project, Biology |
| Howard Zebker | Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Engineering | Geophysics, Electrical Engineering |
| Khalid Osman | Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Alexandra Konings | James B. Macelwane Medal, AGU | Earth System Science |
| Dustin Schroeder | James B. Macelwane Medal, AGU | Geophysics |
| Ross Stein | Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service, AGU | Geophysics |
| Eric Dunham | Union Fellow, AGU | Geophysics |
2023-24 Academic year
| Name | Award | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Margot Gerritsen | Data Science Icon, Women in Data Science | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Hélène Benveniste | Steven and Roberta Denning Faculty Fellow in Global Governance for Sustainability | Environmental Social Sciences |
| Eeshan Chaturvedi | HE Weeramantry Global Fellowship for International Law on Sustainable Development | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources |
| Steven Chu | Karl Compton Medal, American Institute of Physics | Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Energy Science and Engineering |
| Khalid Osman | Eugene L. Grant award | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Kyle Douglas | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Excellence in Teaching Award | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Hamdi Tchelepi | Appointed the Max Steineke Professor | Energy Science and Engineering |
| Alexandria Boehm | Appointed the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Environmental Studies | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Stephen Luby | Walter J. Gores Award | School of Medicine, Woods Institute for the Environment |
| Susanne Sokolow | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Woods Institute for the Environment |
| Andrea Lund | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Former PhD in the lab of Giulio De Leo, Oceans and Earth System Science |
| Giulio De Leo | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Oceans, Earth System Science |
| Andrew Chamberlin | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Oceans |
| Jenna Forsyth | TIME100 Health, 2024 | School of Medicine, Woods Institute for the Environment |
| Hae Young Noh | 2024 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Sarah Fletcher | NSF CAREER Award | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ching-Yao Lai | 2024 Sloan Research Fellow | Geophysics |
| Howard Allan Zebker | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering | Electrical Engineering, Geophysics |
| Alexandria Boehm | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oceans |
| Rodolfo Dirzo | Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology, BBVA Foundation | Earth System Science, Biology |
| Anne Kiremidjian | Doctor Technices Honoris Causa (honorary doctorate) from Aarhus University | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Mark Jacobson | Worthy 100, 2023 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Margariete Malenda | 1st place, Outstanding Paper Competition at the Geothermal Rising Conference | Geophysics |
| Aditi Sheshadri | 2023 Google Research Scholar Program recipient, Applied Science category | Geophysics |
| Ching-Yao Lai | 2023 Google Research Scholar Program recipient, Geo category | Earth System Science |
| Dustin Schroeder | 2023 Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education | Geophysics, Electrical Engineering |
| Jenna Davis | 2023 Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Lupe Carrillo | Honoree of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in a Learning Environment (IDEAL) Honor Roll | Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion |
| Erik Sperling | Charles Schuchert Award | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Rosemary Knight | AGU Ambassador Award | Geophysics |
| Yuan Wang | AGU James B. Macelwane Medal | Earth System Science |
| Rodney Ewing | 2023 William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Yuan Wang | Henry G. Houghton Award | Earth System Science |
2022-23 Academic year
| Name | Award | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Margot Gerritsen | Honorary Doctorate, Eindhoven University of Technology | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Dick Luthy | 2023 Perry L. McCarty Founders Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Simona Onori | Class of 2022 SAE Fellow | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Gretchen Daily | Eminent Ecologist Award | Natural Capital Project (NatCap), H&S |
| Jorge Ramos | Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, H&S |
| Greg Deierlein | Honorary Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Anat Admati | Jeakicke Faculty Award | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Business |
| Anat Admati | Wilbur Cross medal | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Business |
| Patricia Bromley | Academy of Management Annals "Decade Award" | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Education |
| Jon Krosnick | Malinda S. Mitchell Award for Service | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Communication, Political Science |
| Anne Dekas | NSF CAREER Award | Earth System Science, Oceans |
| Barbara Simpson | NSF CAREER Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Erik Sperling | NSF CAREER Award | Geological Sciences |
| Jenny Suckale | NSF CAREER Award | Geophysics |
| Jack Baker | Named editor of Earthquake Spectra | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Jack Baker | William B. Joyner Lecture Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Anne Kiremidjian | 2023 Thomas Egleston Medal | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Rosemary Knight | Engineering News-Record 2022 Top 25 newsmakers | Geophysics, Earth System Science |
| Rosamund Naylor | AAAS Fellow | Global Environmental Policy |
| Tony Kovscek | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering | Energy Science and Engineering |
| Anirudh Allam | EEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award | PhD and Postdoc in the lab of Simona Onori, Energy Science and Engineering |
| Alexandra Konings | 2023 Sloan Research Fellow | Earth System Science |
| Kyle Pietrzyk | Lawrence fellowship | Energy Science and Engineering |
| Emily Snell | Goldwater Scholarship | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Shiran Victoria Shen | International Public Policy Association Early Career Research Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Alicia Seiger | Business Insider as one of 10 global climate leaders | Precourt Institute for Energy |
| Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke | Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Howard Zebker | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's Fawwaz Ulaby Distinguished Achievement Award | Geophysics |
If you don't see an award listed here please reach out to sdss-awards@lists.stanford.edu.
Excellence in Community Award
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Excellence in Community Award recognizes individuals who regularly go above and beyond what is expected to create a more inclusive, just, and welcoming community at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.